Ponovno predvajanje četrtek, 12. februar 1981

RATINGS EXEMPTION URGED FOR TV DOCUMENTARIES

Date: 12 February 1981

By Tony Schwartz

Tony Schwartz

Roone Arledge, president of ABC News and Sports, has called on the three principal television networks to exempt special news programs and documentaries from the weekly prime-time audience-popularity ratings. Mr. Arledge said the action would encourage the networks to program more news in prime time. ''Serious news programs are a public service that rarely attract a large audience, and they shouldn't have to compete with lightentertainment programming,'' he said. ''Right now, each network is penalized in the weekly averages if it puts on a serious news program. News should be removed from the ratings stranglehold.''

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Date: 13 February 1981

REUTERS NAMES NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE LONDON, Feb. 12 (Reuters) - Glen Renfrew, North American manager of Reuters, was named chief executive of the news agency today, succeeding Gerald Long, managing director for the last 18 years. Mr. Renfrew, a 52-year-old Australian who joined Reuters nearly 30 years ago, will take over on March 1, when Mr. Long retires from the agency to become managing director of Times Newspapers Ltd., publisher of The Times of London. The change was announced by the Reuters Board of Directors two weeks after Mr. Long disclosed he would leave the agency to join The Times of London organization if the newspaper was bought by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian publisher.

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STATE DEPT. BRIEFING: WAGNERIAN AND RISKY

Date: 12 February 1981

By Francis X. Clines, Special To the New York Times

Francis Clines

After a long day yesterday of confusion and hectic clarification of the Reagan Administration's policy toward Poland, William J. Dyess, a State Department spokesman, promised today to be more cautious at his daily briefing and wash his mouth out with soap if he ever answered another question that began with the word ''if.'' Actually, Mr. Dyess, an Assistant Secretary of State who has the job of running one of the toughest daily forums in the capital, did answer an ''if'' question today. But it was an easy one devoid of the sort of pitfall that almost swallowed him yesterday in what he described as ''the first big flap'' of his tenure in a very delicate job. ''I will simply take refuge in the truth,'' Mr. Dyess began his 50-minute briefing today, facing close to 10 domestic and foreign news reporters and technicians for the daily Talmudic-like scrutiny of his every word on Government foreign policy.

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SINATRA LICENSE ASSURED AFTER GAMING BOARD VOTE

Date: 12 February 1981

By Robert Lindsey, Special To the New York Times

Robert Lindsey

Frank Sinatra, who was barred from Nevada's gambling industry more than 17 years ago because of his purported ties to organized crime, was authorized to re-enter the industry today by a unanimous vote of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. ''I'm not suggesting he's a saint by any means,'' said Richard Bunker, the board chairman, ''but in the areas we investigated we have not found any substantive reason why he shouldn't have a gaming license.'' The action by the three-member board is subject to pro forma ratification by the Nevada Gaming Control Commission, which is scheduled to meet next week. It would be effective for six months, but sources in the regulatory commission said that they saw no reason why it would not be made permanent at the end of that period.

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CORRECTION

Date: 13 February 1981

CBS News reports that it inadvertently provided incorrect information about its scheduling for an article in The Times yesterday about television documentaries and news ratings. The correct figure for the documentaries CBS ran in prime time during 1980 is 12 hours. ABC also ran 12 hours of documentaries, and NBC 10.

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COMPANY NEWS

Date: 13 February 1981

SERVICE COMPANY IN BIG GAIN By PHILLIP H. WIGGINS Schlumberger Ltd., a leading oilfield-services company, reported yesterday that record drilling activity thoughout the world lifted earnings in the fourth quarter of 1980 by 63.3 percent on an increase in revenues of 32.7 percent. Net income rose to $319.6 million, or $1.67 a share, from $195.7 million, or $1.02 a share, in the fourth quarter of 1979. Revenues climbed to $1.46 billion from $1.1 billion.

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News Analysis

Date: 13 February 1981

By Philip Shabecoff, Special To the New York Times

Philip Shabecoff

Raymond J. Donovan, the new Secretary of Labor, is serving notice that he will not be slow to carry out President Reagan's mandate to ease the regulatory burden on business. Although sworn in late because of a prolonged investigation into his business background, Mr. Donovan charged out of the gate last night, withdrawing or indefinitely postponing several controversial regulations issued by the Carter Administration and temporarily tying up a raft of other new rules. In particular, Mr. Donovan's withdrawal of a rule issued last month requiring the labeling of hazardous chemicals in the workplace is seen by business and labor observers as indicating that he intends to rein in hard on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an agency much disliked by industry. In another step welcomed by business, Mr. Donovan indefinitely postponed new regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act that would have raised by 45 percent the minimum wage that must be paid to supervisory employees if they are to be exempted from receiving overtime pay.

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News Analysis

Date: 12 February 1981

By John Darnton, Special To the New York Times

John Darnton

To the outside world the appointment of Poland's Minister of Defense, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, as Prime Minister may seem like an ominous step toward militarizing the Government and preparing the armed forces for a crackdown on the unions and their supporters. But here, in the calm eye of the international hurricane rising over the Vistula, the appointment is not viewed in such alarming terms. Poles are less afraid of their own army than Western analysts suspect. And General Jaruzelski, whose appointment was confirmed by Parliament today, is widely seen as a kind of Polish Alexander M. Haig Jr., a strong figure for troubled times.

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SPARING OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS: REAGAN BIDS FOR A CONSENSUS; News Analysis

Date: 12 February 1981

By Steven R. Weisman, Special To the New York Times

Steven Weisman

President Reagan's abrupt announcement yesterday sparing seven basic social programs from budget cuts was a response to criticism that his Administration was not keeping its word in promising not to hurt the ''truly needy.'' This was the reason given today for a Presidential action that, in effect, violated his own stated intention not to discuss the details of his economic program until he submits it to the public and Congress next week. But Reagan aides also acknowledged that there could be two unwanted side effects to the President's disclosure. First, the ostensible sparing of the programs, which cost $210 billion annually and amount to more than 25 percent of the budget next year, might appear to contradict another Reagan pledge, to carry out the cuts ''across the board,'' affecting everybody.

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Missing Fight Promoter Delays News Conference

Date: 13 February 1981

Special to the New York Times

Harold J. Smith, the chairman of Muhammed Ali Professional Sports Inc., also called Maps, said in a brief telephone interview today that he was in hiding in Los Angeles but would not hold a news conference here tomorrow, as he previously indicated he would. In a telephone call to The New York Times, Mr. Smith, the boxing promoter, who is the central figure in the investigation of an alleged $21.3 million fraud against the Wells Fargo Bank, said that he hoped to meet here tomorrow with a business associate to make plans for a news conference next Wednesday.

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